Workshift
Hi Everyone, welcome to Workshift Summer 2021! I'm in the process of updating this page after years of neglect. Some of the information is out of date; however much of it is still very useful/pertinent. Please reach out if any of confusing, have suggested edits, or not sure if some of the information is still correct!
Front Page (BSC Workshift Website)
Humor Shift Calendar (sign up for two mandatory 1 hr Fri/Sat dish/pots shifts for workshift credit.)
Suggestion Box (suggestions can be anonymous)
HiP House Calendar View/Add (meetings, workshops, events, and more)
Descriptions:
Bathrooms
The bathrooms (like all common space) require both respectful use and dedicated cleaning shifts.
Cooking
Full Dinners M,T,W,Th,Su
Normal house dinners are on Mon, Tues, Wed, Thu, & Sun night. Best place to meet your housemates!
Dinner is served at 7.
Informal Dinners ("Leftover Hero") F
Informal dinners on Fri have a smaller crew and usually smaller attendance, with a focus on easy, low-impact cooking and reclaiming leftovers.
Cooks start at 5 and dinner is served at 7.
Team Tasty
These cooking shifts are for making(/picking up) mass quantities of a single item to be used throughout the week.
Dishes & Pots
About 20% of workshift hours are dish shifts, so everyone does dishes sooner or later.
Post-dinner Dishes & Pots
Extropy
Entropy is a measure of the disorder in a system. The 2nd law of Thermodynamics states that entropy always increases.
Extropy is a measure of order in a system. Here at HiP we tell the laws of physics to sit down and shut up by assigning workshifts to increase order.
These are "putting stuff in order" shifts. Therapeutic to anal-retentive types.
Hallways
Actually all thoroughfare & small common spaces. This includes vacuuming, but also making sure our hallways are clear of "junk" (and, incidentally, conforms to fire code!).
Heroic Cleaning
These are jobs you don't want to wear you nice clothes to do.
Nothing is sexier than a fearless, hardworking cooper.
Intensive trash and compost (kitchen and bathroom bins)
Light Cleaning
OK, you're still a hero, but expect fewer epic ballads about your exploits. These cleaning shifts won't make You dirty.
Roof, patios, walkways (outdoor common spaces)
Kitchen Clean
These shifts make the kitchen a glittering paragon of hygiene and tasty times, and a desolate wasteland to germs.
Kitchen Clean (All times of day)
Manager Appointed
While the Workshift Manager assigns most workshifts, some managers get full-time helpers that they choose themselves.
If these look like something you'd like to do, start sucking up to the appropriate manager. Manager email links are below:
Other
These Maverick, free-spirited shifts defy all categorization.